A groundbreaking study led by Anirudh Patel suggests that magnetars—rare, highly magnetic neutron stars—played a key role in ...

A powerful cosmic event from 2004—a gamma-ray burst from a magnetar 30,000 light-years away—has just been revealed as a major ...

A new study reveals that violent magnetar flares can forge gold and platinum in space, offering rare insight into the cosmic ...

Scientists propose that magnetars, highly magnetic neutron stars, could be the source of early heavy elements like gold.

In an ejection that would have caused its rotation to slow, a magnetar is depicted losing material into space in this ...

An enormous glowing cloud that contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas has been discovered near the solar ...

Giant flares blasted out of supermagnetized stars called "magnetars" could forge planets' worth of gold and other heavy ...

Scientists at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Astrophysics found a single giant flare from a ...

The universe began with mostly hydrogen, helium, and tiny amounts of lithium. Heavier elements came later, forged in stars ...

Nintendo Switch Online subscribers can play two Star Wars games for free over the next week: Bounty Hunter and Episode I: Jedi Power Battles.

Amazon has launched its first operational Project Kuiper satellites in its attempt to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink—but ...

Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown birthplace of some of the universe's rarest elements: a giant flare ...